John Pearson

Professor of English

John Pearson, Ph.D., is a professor of English specializing in American literature and literary nonfiction, especially autobiography. He teaches a variety of courses at all levels, from first-year seminars to graduate courses. Publications include The Prefaces of Henry James: Framing the Modern Reader and articles in Mosaic, Biography and in several collections of essays.

Education

Ph.D., Boston University

M.A., Boston University

B.A., Eckerd College

Course Topics

The Art of Madness

The Cult of the Beautiful

Autobiography

Nineteenth-Century American Literature

College Writing

Writing and Rhetoric

Reading Nonfiction

Research Interests

Nineteenth century American literature, especially Henry James and Constance Fenimore Woolson

Autobiography and autobiography theory

Travel narrative

Publications

The Prefaces of Henry James: Framing the Modern Reader, University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1997.

"Repetition and Subversion in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw." In New Casebooks: The Turn of the Screw and What Maisie Knew. Ed. Neil Cornwell and Maggie Malone. London: Macmillan P; Boston: St. Martin's P; 1998. Reprint of "Repetition and Subversion in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw." The Henry James Review 13 (Fall 1992): 1-18

"The Art of Self Creation: Henry James in the New York Edition Prefaces." In Fashioning the Self: Essays on Modern Novelists. Ed. Marysa DeMoor, Ed. (London: Palgrave P, 2004).